Hello, I seem to have trouble that my .profile is not read when I log in using slim. I assume this since none of the paths in .profile are exported.
I know that ~/.xinitrc is read according to slim.conf, but that only runs startxfce4 at my computer. Should I add ~/.profile as another command line to be executed at login in slim.conf?
Also there are problems with certain of the arrow keys etc in the xterms, e.g I cannot scroll back to previous commands or use the tab for completion.

That is strange since when I click on the terminal I assume that it starts sh since it has the $ prompt and export command works, so it is not csh. But it still does not read in the paths in ~/.profile or ~/.shrc, even when I explicitly run sh.

-ls This option indicates that the shell that is
started in the xterm window will be a login shell
(i.e., the first character of argv[0] will be a
dash, indicating to the shell that it should read
the user's .login or .profile).

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I hope that these newbie questions do not create too much noise on this forum. Perhaps you could have a own section for these kind of questions, so that people who are "serious" are not annoyed.
I guess one could always search more on the web and go through books and man-files. But if the OS per se is not the center of ones universe, it is hard to put that much effort into resolving these problems on your own. Therefore until the data-base of posts on this forum is not so big that you can find most answers by searching the posts here, I hope that this is ok, Of course the person asking questions should not come and expect to get served with answers, but instead be grateful for any help that he/she gets.
But that is just my opinion, perhaps the BSD systems is not an alternative for regular lazy windows users.